KENYA: The Man They Left Behind

"Isn't it better," said the husky white
settler from Kenya somewhat plaintively last week, "for us to let the
African take the wheel of the bus as long as we can sit by his side and
read the map, rather than wait until he throws us out?" For five years
ambitious Michael Blundell, 52, head of the moderate New Kenya Group,
has been urging his 65,000 fellow whites to accept a multiracial
government before the colony's 6,000,000 blacks take over everything
themselves. Last week, as the London conference on the future of Kenya
was drawing to a close (TIME,...